Is it the UKIP Lambeth and North Croydon branch, which was suspended (yes, the entire branch) last December?

Probably, but we think UKIP Bristol would be a good candidate for the award. Its committee members are listed on its website, optimistically placed under a famous Barack Obama quote:

The personnel of UKIP Bristol.

Let’s find out more about three of them: Steve Wood (chairman), John Langley (vice chairman) and Michael Frost, the party’s only councillor in Bristol City Council.

Steve Wood (Chairman)

Chairman Steve Wood has ‘liked’ a few far-right pages on Facebook, including a page called ‘The Templars. 2012’, which uses imagery and words similar to that found in Anders Breivik’s manifesto. Here is an example of their posts (caution: contains a racial slur). And with other, raunchy ‘likes’ such as ‘Magaluf Exposed’, it’s a wonder how Wood gets any of his chairman duties done!

Pages ‘liked’ by the chairman of UKIP Bristol.

Incredibly, the same Steve Wood then complained on a UKIP Bristol forum about the Bridge Learning Campus school listing UKIP with the EDL and the BNP.

Steve Wood complains about a school presentation slide.

John Langley (Vice Chairman)

We have just written a blog entry about how Langley seems to have contacts in the EDL. Read it here, including an updatewith Langley’s unusual response to the allegations.

MichaelFrost (Councillor)

Frost is the only elected UKIP representative in Bristol and is known for his outbursts. Last August, he made lavish security demands. He seemingly called the electorate ‘wimps, whingers and apologists’. He also angered residents at a council meeting. But it was on Twitter that Frost surpassed himself, retweeting the anti-Muslim group Bluehand and writing that Israelis and Palestinians should kill each other. Read LiberalIsland’s take on the Tweets here.

Councillor Michael Frost on Twitter.

And despite all of the above, Frost had the temerity to call the Bridge Learning Campus school ‘totally outrageous’!

Conclusion: what stands out about UKIP Bristol, above other branches, is their utter hypocrisy. The three most high profile members of UKIP Bristol were very vocal in refuting UKIP being listed as a racist group during a presentation in a local school. Yet those three same men are quite happy to sympathise with far-right groups on social media. One even appears to be on speaking terms with them.

UKIP Wales have been rocked this week by the resignation of their deputy chairman James Cole. To make matters worse, Cole posted a scathing attack of the party as his Facebook status, claiming that UKIP in Wales are ‘no longer a party of democracy’. Here is his post in full.

James Cole resigns with a parting shot at UKIP Wales.

James Cole had an eventful time as deputy chairman. In August 2013, he released a video (below) on his Youtube channel in which he claimed that:

i) ‘Native Welsh people will be a minority in their own country within the next 15 to 20 years’.

ii) On arrival in Britain, immigrants are able to receive benefits ‘from day 1’ – a claim which has been proven false.

He also commented below the video claiming that Britain was the most densely populated country in Europe. In reality, Malta, the Netherlands and Belgium are 3 EU countries more densely populated than the UK. Cole was accused of ‘blatant scapegoating’ over the video.

Last year he was selected and then deselected as UKIP’s PPC for Llanelli in a series of farcical events. Firstly, he was controversially declared (by UKIP Llanelli chairman Barry Clark) as PPC despite not achieving a two-thirds majority in a members’ vote. Non-committee members were not given the chance to verify the count. After a complaint made from within UKIP Llanelli to UKIP’s head office, party chairman Steve Crowther ruled the vote invalid. Cole was deselected. To add to the events, during UKIP Llanelli’s next meeting in November, a journalist was ejected and UKIP were accused of curbing press freedom.

Ex-military businessman Cole voiced his opinion on Facebook often. He claimed to be against racism last year, but does he practise what he preaches? A quick look at his friends list reveals a few far-right, anti-Muslim and sectarian friends. You may recognise Jacqui Jackson. She was the UKIP supporter who used racial slurs to describe Chukka Umunna as well as admitting that she was a UKIP member (not a wise combination).

Dubious friends on James Cole’s friend list.

Almost as bad are Cole’s ‘likes’, which include Britain First and the hate-filled page ‘We demand an immediate end to immigration’, the admin of which admits to being a ‘passionate’ ex-BNP supporter.

James Cole ‘likes’ far-right pages.

Here is an example of what the second page posts.

We hope the next deputy chairman of UKIP Wales is more careful on social media sites.

Skip to February and this news emerges about Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto who was UKIP’s Commonwealth spokesman for a year, and as it transpires, was a former leader of a kidnapping gang in Pakistan. Shocking!

UKIP tells its MEPs they’ll have to donate £50,000 to the cash-strapped party amid concerns at the top of UKIP that a £6m donation pledged by Paul Sykes, the former Tory donor, has not come through and that the party will be left with huge debts after the European elections.

April isn’t any better. A UKIP councillor quits saying he is ‘disgusted’ by his former party’s policy on gay marriage.

UKIP then defends a councillor candidate who called gay people ‘abnormal’ and said he wished ‘they stop trying to ram it down my throat’, all the while discussing whether the word ‘sodomite’ should be used.

When do MEPs become unaccountable to members of the public who contribute to their huge salaries in exchange for representing our interests with the European Union? When they become UKIP MEPs it would seem.

Setting aside the recent antics of Janice Atkinson who positively glides through Teflon coated corridors of power and takes a ‘holiday’ when confronted with barely disguised racist comments about a constituent, we now have Jane Collins, MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire spreading a fake/made up meme about Chuka Umunna, Labour Member of Parliament for Streatham and Shadow Business Secretary.

So what, you may say, it’s par for the course for kippers to gleefully jump onto anything they can to prop up their rabid ‘liblabcon’ agenda to deflect away from their own party’s dismal failings. We can laugh at them and even have a great deal of fun at their expense. But we’re talking about an elected official here, who has no place supporting extreme far right propaganda and feeding hatred amongst that fertile breeding ground for division of our communities.

When the tweet first appeared people rightly called Collins out for the source. It soon became apparent the reason why she was reluctant to reveal the source. It was lifted directly from the neo-nazi site of our old friend and serial malicious communications offender Joshua Bonehill, who is currently under police investigation and awaiting another court appearance.

Only when challenged by fellow tweeters did Collins admit she had made a mistake, that she did not check her source and apologised to the tweeter. She offered no apology to Chukka Umunna, despite this unpleasant and possibly libellous meme doing the rounds on far right sites on social media such as Britain First amongst others and the accompanying bilious comments that ensued.

Look how many shares it got? And this is a complete lie.

Britain First fans were busy commenting away, despite people trying to tell them it wasn’t true.

It would seem the image went viral afterwards, and UKIP activists were tweeting all over the place. Here’s David Jones, doing his bit.

Collins then deleted the offending tweet and blocked people who reasonably queried why she felt it necessary to RT a fake image from a source she did not check. This smacks of arrogance and the utmost disregard for the very people she is accountable to, the general public. Now, aside from her contempt for the voting public, there is a more sinister agenda here. You will recall that Chukka Umunna was recently attacked in the most vile way by kippers on social media because he was quoted out of context about internet usage within that demographic. Why would an MEP then post this unsubstantiated quote from him unless to further some agenda against him? Yet that is not the only unpleasant aspect of this sorry saga.

The other unpalatable issue for ukip is the connection between an MEP and a far right neo nazi. Jane Collins did not RT that picture, she lifted it directly from the site it originated, National British Resistance, the neo nazi site run by Joshua Bonehill . https://twitter.com/official_nbr/status/506467219275268096

I cannot imagine why an MEP would be following such a site, let alone proliferate an image which could be construed to inciting racial hatred. Bonehill is still tweeting his usual rubbish this morning, based on his own lies. Isn’t there some law against blatant lies like this, made up by hitler wannabe fascists like Bonehill?

This may all sound like a storm in a tea party, however, not content with the earlier mess she got herself into, we also discovered this retweet of ex EDL Tommy Robinson. Again she has since deleted the tweet, possibly after bring further challenged.

Now, we know kippers are not the brightest stars in the universe, but we expect more from an MEP. We expect them to work hard for their constituents and their salaries. We expect them to engage with the public in a decent and fair manner. We don’t expect them to engage in promoting far right propaganda as a knee jerk reaction to something they see and want to believe. We certainly don’t expect them to believe they can treat us with contempt when called out publicly to account for their actions, and certainly not to be promoting extreme far-right views of the likes of idiots like Tommy Robinson, and Joshua Bonehill.

Jane Collins can cite freedom of speech if she so wishes. UKIP usually do when it’s their freedom of speech, yet I doubt she will on this occasion. She knows she has overstepped the mark. She may have also broken the law, she has certainly left us in no doubt that she has zero credibility in what she says now she has been exposed as a blind re-tweeter of some of the most prolific neo-nazi rubbish on social media today.

Even as this is being written she is still re tweeting from dubious sources and followers from the extreme far right. Maybe UKIP is not the right party for her, or maybe it is!